Canadian author Jane Rule published the novel “Desert of the Heart” in 1964; it has come to be considered a landmark of lesbian fiction. The following excerpts from the 1994 documentary FICTION AND OTHER TRUTHS: A FILM ABOUT JANE RULE, by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman, feature Rule discussing the writing of her groundbreaking book.
The following conversation between Queersighted series programmer Michael Koresky, author of Film Comment’s Queer & Now & Then column, and film critic and editor Melissa Anderson was recorded in 2019.